Alice was born into a family of a husband, wife, and elder sister named Lizzie. The family was of decent wealth for the time period. London in the 1800's was not the kindest period for England. However, with a doctor for a father, the Liddell's did well.
All was wondrous in the Liddell household until Alice reached the tender age of 5. All the family members curled up in their beds and went to sleep as any normal Wednesday night. Alice awoke to the smell of smoke, coughing and very afraid of the scene before her. the house was in flames. She jumped from her bed, and ran to the room of her parents. She heard their blood curdling scream as they were burning to death. The frightened child ran from the home and collapsed over feet from her childhood home.
The reports determined the cause of the fire was the cat, Dila, knockin over a lamp that was left on in the study, falling onto the papers and books left lying about, instantly creating the enormous fire that overtook the family, leaving but one single survivor. The parents were said to be scratching at the door to their bedroom for their lives, but for some reason didn't manage to escape. The elder daughter, Lizzie, never even left her bed. Burned alive while sleeping.
Poor Alice fell into a deep state of insanity. Her young mind couldn't handle the survivor syndrome she gain from being the lone person to leave that place alive. She went mad with stories of how she could have saved them... And then for months wouldn't utter a word at all.
10 years she spent in an asylum. Experimented on, abused, locked away into a padded room. 10 years of various doctors searching for answers in her on what happened that night. Finally they released her to a work program. A live in made for no cost to whatever family would take her in. A family of high nobility took her under their wing... Sort of
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There she was. A 15 year old outcast fresh from the asylum. Thin as a rail, tattered clothes, hair grown back to her ears since the doctors stopped drilling holes into her head, her eyes had deeply dark circles under them from the sleepless nights filled with horrifying nightmares. All she had to call her own was a stuffed white rabbit, with one eye and still smelled of fire.
She stood at the doorstep of a large ominous red painted twin door, with over sized knockers. Her small hand lifted to grip the thing, and as she reached, the door began to creek open. Alice was worried. She heard that the Duke was a dreadful man...
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The most beautiful man she had ever seen opened the door. A feeling filled Alice she had never experienced. Her cheeks felt hot, and her knees began to slightly shake. Alice was in love.
The man removed the cigarette from his mouth, and looked down at the frail looking girl. His tired scoul melted, and his bloodshot eyes seemed to come to life.
He was the second son of the Duke. Currently working on his law degree, he took his father's second home to have a place to study with little disturbance. He decided on cheap help as it was looked to as charity work as well as he was a student and couldn't really afford some uppity maid chasing him in her free time so she would be set for life.
Over the next two years their infatuation blossomed. He had gotten her nice clothes and took dear care of her. His affection and money seemed to only lack the ability to cure her night terrors and fire fascination. Now working at the most esteemed law office in town, he had the money to spare and get the highest rated psychologist in all of London. He promised his young love he would wed her on her 18th birthday if she agreed to see this doctor.
Alice was so in love, how could she ever reject such a sweet offer. She would have sessions during the day and wined and dined at night by her sweet fiance. All he wanted to do was help her.
She entered the study unsure what was to come, only to see a familiar face. Dr. goonict. Her childhood neighbor. He spent day after day, hour after hour trying to hypnotize her and erase her memory of that dreadful night in her childhood. It only made her more frantic and her dreams more strange.
She didn't stop seeing him as it pleased her betrothed, and their nights alone with fancy feasts and the best wines were so wonderful... But that all ended when her dream unlocked the secrets of why after all the strange tests she had a memory of this neighbor. He was infatuated with her older sister, Lizzie. He was 40 at the time and proposed to Lizzie who was hardly 19. Sure, Her beloved was himself 24, but that was very much acceptable in the 1800's. Alice remembered him behind her as she crawled out of the burning house that night before passing out. Memories she had long forgotten.
Alice waited a few weeks till the day before her wedding. It was the last session she would ever have before reaching royal status and have the power to bury this monster! She strut right up the doctor and told him what she knew! He couldn't have that... Bang! Her life was over just as it was about to begin.
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